Diluting Calcium

[blink_inc]

I belive I have a calcium deficiency and was wondering rather than CalMag or other products, can I purchase powdered calcium at the drugstore and dilute it?

[stinkyattic]

Most calcium salts have very low solubility in water at the pH your plants like. CalMag is cheap. You'd spend more money on the pills and more time messing with them than if you'd just gotten a bottle of calmag.
If you want to go organic, mix bone meal (CaPO4) into your soil before planting. It's slow release and will prevent Ca def and help flowering.

[blink_inc]

I have been wanting to use bone meal and other organic additives but there is no guide to ratio.

Is it a few table spoons to a 25L bag of soil or is it the whole box of bone meal?

I'm by no means cheap on my supplies I just have to drive a long way to get them and am looking for DIY solutions.

Stinky, what ratio do I use to a bag of soil?
I use a peat based soil with 2/3 bag of perlite to one bag of soil. Botanicare nutes beginning to end.

[rhizome]

I have been wanting to use bone meal and other organic additives ...
...I use a peat based soil with 2/3 bag of perlite to one bag of soil. Botanicare nutes beginning to end.


Good Lord, why?

If yer running soil-less, run soil-less. You're just giving up control of the nutrient levels in the media, so that you can add something that some functionary somewhere has stamped " organic".

That's a nice, manageable system that yer using- Don't dick with it just so that you can feel more " organic". If you want to adjust your media, do it for good reasons relating to your plants, not because " organic is better".

It's not, for our purposes. Just differant.

People say that they can tell "organic" from " chemmy". They also say that they can tell whether or not somebody's hetero/homosexual the moment they meet.

They can't.

Anyway, my $.02US ( about $.0164CDN)

[the image reaper]

Question: my present bottle of CalMag+ is $18 for a quart :( ... yesterday, in the hardware store's garden section, I saw a quart of 'Calcium' additive (no magnesium or iron, like the CalMag+) ... it was about $8/qt. ... I'm wondering if I will miss the mag. and iron boost ... ?? (Cinderella99 has reputation of being magnesium hog) :smokin:

[the image reaper]

Good Lord, why?

If yer running soil-less, run soil-less. You're just giving up control of the nutrient levels in the media, so that you can add something that some functionary somewhere has stamped " organic".

That's a nice, manageable system that yer using- Don't dick with it just so that you can feel more " organic". If you want to adjust your media, do it for good reasons relating to your plants, not because " organic is better".

It's not, for our purposes. Just differant.

People say that they can tell "organic" from " chemmy". They also say that they can tell whether or not somebody's hetero/homosexual the moment they meet.

They can't.

Anyway, my $.02US ( about $.0164CDN)

I can't agree enough :thumbsup: ...

[blink_inc]

Fair enough.

I though I would make things "better" by changing. What I have now does work just fine.